Public Act 096-1323
 
HB5448 EnrolledLRB096 19625 AJO 35021 b


  
    AN ACT concerning child support.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of 
Marriage Act is amended  by changing Section 203 as follows:
 



    (750 ILCS 5/203)  (from Ch. 40, par. 203)



    Sec. 203. License to Marry. When a marriage application has 
been
completed and signed by both parties to a prospective 
marriage and both
parties have appeared before the county clerk 
and the marriage license
fee has been paid, the county clerk 
shall issue a license to marry and a
marriage certificate form 
upon being furnished:

    (1) satisfactory proof that each party to the marriage will 
have
attained the age of 18 years at the time the marriage 
license is
effective or will have attained the age of 16 years 
and has either the
consent to the marriage of
both parents or 
his guardian or judicial approval; provided, if one
parent 
cannot be located in order to obtain such consent and diligent

efforts have been made to locate that parent by the consenting 
parent, then
the consent of one parent plus a signed affidavit 
by the consenting parent
which (i) names the absent parent and 
states that he or she cannot be
located, and (ii) states what 
diligent efforts have been made to locate the
absent parent, 
shall have the effect of both parents' consent for purposes
of 
this Section;

    (2) satisfactory proof that the marriage is not prohibited; 
and

    (3) an affidavit or record as prescribed in subparagraph 
(1) of Section
205 or a court order as prescribed in 
subparagraph (2) of Section 205, if applicable.

    With each marriage license, the county clerk shall provide 
a pamphlet
describing the causes and effects of fetal alcohol 
syndrome. At least annually, the county board shall submit to 
the Illinois Department of Public Health

a report as to the 
county clerk's compliance with the requirement that the county 
clerk provide a pamphlet with each marriage license. All 
funding and production costs for the aforementioned 
educational pamphlets for distribution to each county clerk 
shall be provided by non-profit, non-sectarian statewide 
programs that provide education, advocacy, support, and 
prevention services pertaining to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. 

(Source: P.A. 86-832; 86-884; 86-1028.)